Spinning tropics
Subtitle: a novel
By: Aska Mochizuki ; translated from the Japanese by Wayne P. Lammers
Contributors: Lammers, Wayne P.
Series: Vintage contemporaries original; Vintage contemporaries original
Publisher: Vintage Books
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 231
ISBN-13: 9780307473691
Work titles: Kaiten suru nettai
Description: When Yun becomes one of Hiro's students, they are instantly drawn to each other. Hiro is a young Japanese woman who has recently moved to Vietnam to be a language teacher, and Yun is a shy, young Vietnamese woman studying Japanese, determined to make a better life for herself. For both of them, it is their first time in love with another woman. But when a businessman befriends Hiro, Yun grows jealous, and a complicated love triangle forms.
Notes: Originally published in Japanese as "Kaiten suru nettai" by Random House Kodansha, Tokyo, in 2007.

Translated into English from the Japanese.